Chapin man avoids prison in $100K-a-week illegal gambling case

A 73-year-old man from Chapin, South Carolina, has been sentenced to five years of probation after it was uncovered that he intended to “engage in illegal” gambling businesses. James O. Helms helped run a “large-scale gambling organization” in Lexington, Kentucky. Helms pled guilty to conspiracy to engage in the illegal business, which reportedly drew in […]